Listen: Florida Tourism Industry Devastated By Pandemic

"Another cruise ship with covert nineteen rock victim's house now docked in Florida the sunshine state's struggling with not only the health crisis but also the economic fallout including the state's southernmost points hotel occupancy in the keys is just seven percent compared to ninety two percent this time last year tourism officials say thousands of hospitality workers are now two weeks without a paycheck imagine down here you worry about hurricanes something like this because hurricanes have a finite beginning and end I've lived here for thirty seven years and business owners are my friends are scared CBS news correspondent Manuel Bojorquez"

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Florida Tourism Industry Devastated By Pandemic

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Another cruise ship with covert nineteen rock victim's house now docked in Florida the sunshine state's struggling with not only the health crisis but also the economic fallout including the state's southernmost points hotel occupancy in the keys is just seven percent compared to ninety two percent this time last year tourism officials say thousands of hospitality workers are now two weeks without a paycheck imagine down here you worry about hurricanes something like this because hurricanes have a finite beginning and end I've lived here for thirty seven years and business owners are my friends are scared CBS news correspondent Manuel Bojorquez

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